[SEDXC] Comments on the VP6DI Dxpedition

[Carl Henson]

I am severely disappointed in the DX community for their treatment of the 
VP6DI operation.
I listened to all the policemen, jammers and frustrated DXers vent on the 
transmit frequency.  It was disgusting.
Many of operators were inexperienced, but were using good operating practise 
on their end.  The DXers trying to work them have obviously been spoiled by 
most recent major DXpeditions being run by not only experienced operators, 
but world class contest operators.  The insane procedure of continuing to 
call when a partial call has been answered that does not even vaguely 
resemble your own call is destructive and slows down the entire operation.
I identified several well known DXers gabbing on the transmit frequency and 
not identifying.  The habit of changing your callsign in your TNC and 
sending "unidentified" derogatory comments about the DXpedition, its 
operators, and even idiots in the pileup is both illegal and damaging to 
Amateur Radio.
I know the idiots are in the minority, but scum floats to the top as well as 
cream.
Finally, I would like to suggest that the system-operators of the packet 
cluster try to watch for those bogus callsigns such as N0QRM and if they 
show on your cluster, block them out.

73,
Carl WB4ZNH



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